Social Workers: Visas
Commons · Question 77555 · Tabled 16 Sep 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 17 Oct 2025
Question
Asked by Cat Smith
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of linking salary requirements to NHS pay scales on overseas social workers with skilled worker visas employed by local authorities.
Answer
Answered by Mike Tapp, 17 Oct 2025
We use Office for National Statistics (ONS) data to set salary requirements for occupations, except where a national pay scale exists. In the case of social workers, the NHS Agenda for Change is the only available national scale, as Local Authority rates ...